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Ireland, where one hundred greenshanks might be reckoned for 
every green sandpiper. 
According to Mr. Templeton^s journal, it has been seen four 
times at Cranmore, his residence near Belfast, — twice previous 
to 1800, once in that year, and in 1801. At ^^Brick-holes,''* 
Mays-bank, close to that town, one was shot early in the winter 
of 1822. At Stranmillis, about a mile distant, another was 
killed during frost and snow in the winter of 1823.* More 
lately, a bird believed to be of this species (but which was not 
obtained) was observed to frequent Conswater, in the vicinity of 
the town, for some time. In the winter of 1836-7, a taxider- 
mist there liad a green sandpiper sent to him in a fresh state 
from some of the northern counties. One, in the Belfast Museum, 
was killed by a person when snipe-shooting, in a bog between 
the river Bann and Eathfriland, county of Down.t A recent 
adult bird shot in the neighbourhood of Antrim, on the 25th of 
August, 1817, came under my notice ; its stomach contained 
water-beetles, specimens of Cypris, &c. 
A green sandpiper was shot in the montli of October (?) about 
the year 1829, at Clontarf, near Dublin ; — another, which I saw 
in 1833, had been killed a few years previously, and sent in a 
recent state to the metropolis. Mr. W. S. Wall (bird-preserver) 
informed me, in 1833, that, within the preceding seven or eight 
years, three fresh specimens, procured near Dublin, had been sent 
to him. Subsequently, one was shot atMalahide by Mr. AAarren. 
On the 5th November, 1816, a recently -killed bird was purchased 
of a hawker in the metropolis. On the 17th of January, 1838, 
I saw (previous to its being skinned) a beautiful adult female 
which had been killed in Queen' s-county ; its stomach contained 
the remains of worms and a Physa fontinalis — the latter proving 
that it had been feeding in fresh water. In the month of Beb- 
ruary, 1836, one was killed about five miles from Clonmel. { 
* Rev. G. M. Black. 
t The dimensions of this bird agree, in every part, with the description in 
Jenjms’s ‘ Manual.’ 
X Mr. R. Davis. 
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